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Words and meanings : lexical semantics across domains, languages, and cultures /

"In a series of cross-cultural investigations of word meaning, Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka examine key expressions from different domains of the lexicon - concrete, abstract, physical, sensory, emotional, and social. They focus on complex and culturally important words in a range of langu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goddard, Cliff
Other Authors: Wierzbicka, Anna
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Oxford linguistics
Subjects:
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=SQH2AQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=words+and+meanings&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjso8Kg2N3LAhVDGY4KHcGaB4IQ6wEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=words%20and%20meanings&f=false
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505 0 |a Words, Meaning, and Methodology -- Men, Women, and Children: The semantics of basic social categories -- Sweet, Hot, Hard, heavy, Rough, Sharp: Physical quality words in cross-linguistic perspective -- From Colour Words to Visual Semantics: English, Russian, Warlpiri -- Happiness and Human Values in Cross-cultural and Historical Perspective -- Pain Is it a Human Universal? The Perspective From Cross-linguistic Semantics -- Suggesting, Apologising, Complimenting: English speech act verbs -- A Stitch in Time and The Way of The Rice Plant: The semantics of proverbs in English and Malay -- The Meaning of Abstract Nouns: Locke, Bentham and Contemporary Semantics -- Broader Perspectives: Beyond lexical semantics. 
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